Comportamiento legislativo supranacional: Explicando el éxito electoral y las carreras políticas de los Parlamentarios Andinos ecuatorianos

Abstract

This research thesis investigates a new political arena: the supranational Andean Parliament. Its main focus is to analyze Ecuadorian representatives' political careers, taking into account what the main reasons are for these political actors to get elected, and therefore what influences their political ambition. This project uses a multi-method methodology, to first establish relations between the variables under consideration and second, by interviews, study the independent variables in greater depth. The findings were that one's political party, ballot position and past political experience positively influence their electoral chances. In addition, these incumbents behavior differs from the national and provincial legislators, which do not tend to reelect. Following the guidelines proposed by Basabe-Serrano (2018) and Navia y Umpierrez de Reguero (2018), Andean Parliament incumbents mostly pursue a progressive ambition, as stated in Schlesinger (1966).